Mass incarceration has become a hot-button political issue in West Virginia and around the country in recent years. Research into the consequences of placing millions of Americans behind bars makes for sobering reading, but the results of a study conducted by...

ValuePenguin has ranked the states based on their distracted driving fatality rate, finding that the laxity or strictness of each state’s cellphone laws did much to influence the rates. West Virginia had one of the lower ones, ranking 43rd with .51 fatalities...